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| 1969 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. December 14, 1969 · Alan Schneider | 1 performances |
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She made her Broadway musical debut in the bio-musical George M!, starring Joel Grey, and, after costarring in the mega-flop La Strada and an On the Town revival, she portrayed tragic silent-screen star Mabel Normand opposite the wonderful Robert Preston in Mack and Mabel. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p248
Bouncing back from another disaster in La Strada, he replaced Dean Jones in Company shortly after opening, becoming the only actor in history to be deemed eligible for a Tony Award nomination though not a member of the original cast. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p325
Larry Kert—juvenile of Prince’s West Side Story and A Family Affair (1962), more recently languishing in Breakfast at Tiffany’ (1966) and La Strada (1969)—stepped into the role and made it (ambiguously) his. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p218
Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey’s sister in Stewart’s George M! (1967) and the Ruby Keeler-ish ingénue in the Off-Broadway Dames at Sea (1968), had already starred in not one but three musical flops: Lionel Bart’s La Strada (1969); the 1971 revival of On the Town; and as Carlotta Monti, opposite Mickey Rooney’s Bill Field… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p586
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La Strada (1), an adaptation of Federico Fellini’s movie, had started life as a Lionel Bart musical, but almost his entire score was jettisoned before the New York opening. book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p283
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